Around 2003, there were 6 young players in the Chinese men's table tennis who had achieved good results in the world table tennis arena, and fans called them the "Six Little Dragons of National Table Tennis".
Now Wang Hao, the head coach of Chinese men's table tennis, was once a member of the "Six Little Dragons of National Table Tennis", which shows the gold content of the "Six Little Dragons of National Table Tennis".
But there are good developments, and there are bad developments, today we will talk about one of the more sad players in the "Six Little Dragons of National Table Tennis", that is Hao Shuai.
Today, let's walk into Hao Shuai's table tennis world:
One
Hao Shuai was born on October 1, 1983 in an ordinary family in Tianjin.
After Hao Shuai was born, his father earned money to support the family, and his mother was a full-time housewife at home, in addition to cooking and housework, she took Hao Shuai.
But Hao Shuai was very naughty when he was young, often jumping up and down, and the sofa and dining table at home became his stage, which made his mother have to watch him all the time, for fear that he would bump into him, so he didn't have much time to do housework.
Hao Shuai, who is so naughty, also gave the teacher a headache in kindergarten, so the teacher was suggested by Hao Shuai's parents that since Hao Shuai's athletic ability is so good, it is better to let him practice sports, so that after practicing tired, he is not so active at home and in kindergarten.
The teacher's suggestion Hao Shuai's mother also felt feasible, because she felt that after kindergarten, she would send her son to the table tennis training class, so that she would have more opportunities to do housework.
After going to the table tennis training class, all of Hao Shuai's sports cells have been better played in this.
Moreover, after coming into contact with table tennis, Hao Shuai showed a strong interest in table tennis, but his parents didn't think he could play for long at that time.
Hao Shuai's parents have always respected their son's opinions, especially in the practice of table tennis, so it can be said that Hao Shuai was able to enter the national team later, which is completely the reason for his persistence.
Every day when it was time to train, Hao Shuai took the initiative to say to his mother: "Mom, it's time for us to train." ”
Sometimes, if he doesn't perform well in training, he will be scolded by the coach, Hao Shuai is often scolded and cried by the coach, but he never wants to give up, and always wipes away his tears and continues to train.
Once Hao Shuai had a fever and chickenpox, his mother thought that he would definitely not go to training, but who knew that it was time to train, Hao Shuai begged his mother to take him to training: "I can't play, I can practice serving." ”
Seeing her son like this, the mother was very distressed, she was worried that her son's chickenpox would be transmitted to other children, but she really couldn't resist Hao Shuai, so she called the coach to explain the situation.
The coach was also very moved by Hao Shuai's situation, so he told Hao Shuai's mother, then I will give Hao Shuai a small lesson today.
Hao Shuai, who looked listless and sick because of his illness, immediately became lively after seeing the table tennis table at the training place.
Watching her son train inside with the coach, Hao Shuai's mother stood outside the stadium in distress and wiped her tears.
Table tennis is the national sport in China, and there are many people who take the professional route, so Hao Shuai needs to put in a lot of effort if he wants to play a certain position.
Therefore, when I was a child, other people's children could play games after school, and they could travel with their parents during the winter and summer vacations, but Hao Shuai used all these hours for training.
Hao Shuai's parents watched their son train so hard, so they have always had a natural attitude towards where their son would go on the road of table tennis.
Two
While practicing table tennis, Hao Shuai did not abandon his studies.
And Hao Shuai's practice of table tennis has also improved rapidly step by step from the interest class at the beginning to the amateur sports school and then to the sports school.
In a blink of an eye, it came the year of Hao Shuai's graduation from primary school, Hao Shuai's parents thought that their son would spend most of his energy on table tennis training, so as long as he could pass every course at the beginning of the cultural class, but who knew that Hao Shuai took a 10th place in the class.
But this puts a difficult problem in front of Hao Shuai's parents, because if the son's performance in cultural classes is not very good, then let the son concentrate on practicing table tennis.
After all, the pressure of learning in junior high school and elementary school is not the same, and a person's energy is limited, so there may not be much of a problem in the elementary stage.
However, as Hao Shuai goes to junior high school, his table tennis strength is also improving, and it is difficult for him to allocate time.
Therefore, at this stage, a trade-off must be made, Hao Shuai's parents left this problem to Hao Shuai's self, and Hao Shuai still wants to continue playing in his heart.
Because Hao Shuai feels that it is never too late to learn, but practicing table tennis is the most critical stage at that time, which determines whether he can enter the national team in the future and become a world champion.
In this way, Hao Shuai began to spend more time on table tennis, and the year after this decision was made, in 1996, the 13-year-old Hao Shuai was selected for the Tianjin team.
It is worth mentioning that the year before Hao Shuai was selected for the Tianjin team, the Chinese table tennis team won all 7 events at the Tianjin World Table Tennis Championships in 1995.
In particular, the men's team championship has been won by the Swedish men's table tennis team in the previous three consecutive World Table Tennis Championships, so the Tianjin World Table Tennis Championships Chinese men's table tennis won the men's team championship again is also seen as an opportunity for the Chinese men's table tennis to rise again.
Among the Chinese men's table tennis team that won the men's team championship at the Tianjin World Table Tennis Championships, the number one main force happened to be Tianjin athlete Ma Wenge.
Therefore, the entire Tianjin table tennis team feels honored, Hao Shuai entered the Tianjin men's table tennis under such circumstances, so in his young heart, he also regards Ma Wenge as his idol, looking forward to the day when he can also become the main force of Chinese men's table tennis, and even the main force to turn the tide.
After three years of men's table tennis training in Tianjin, in 1999, Hao Shuai participated in the large training organized by the national team, and at the beginning of the big round robin tournament, Hao Shuai played very badly, losing three games in a row, but then Hao Shuai's condition improved, and finally successfully entered the national second team with his excellent performance.
One year after entering the national second team, Hao Shuai was selected for the national first team.
The year Hao Shuai entered the national first team coincided with the Olympic year, and the 27th Summer Olympics were held in Sydney, Australia.
The men's singles champion of table tennis at that Olympics was Kong Linghui, and Kong Linghui became the second Chinese men's table tennis player to play a Grand Slam after Liu Guoliang.
At that time, the athletic life span of the national table tennis players was very short, so although Kong Linghui was only 25 years old when he won the Olympic men's singles championship, he was already a veteran member of the national table tennis men's team.
The coaching staff has also begun to develop young players, such as Wang Liqin, who was only 22 years old at the time, and won the men's doubles title with 25-year-old Yan Sen at the Sydney Olympics.
Therefore, although Hao Shuai was only 17 years old at that time, he was also qualified to compete for the main position.
Three
In the first two years of entering the national table tennis team, Hao Shuai had almost no opportunities to participate in competitions, so not too many people knew about him.
Until 2003, at the year-end finals of the ITTF Tour, Hao Shuai went all the way to the finals, and his opponent in the final was Wang Hao.
At this time, Hao Shuai and Wang Hao are both young players focused on training by the national table tennis men's team, and both of them have reached the final of this kind of top-level competition for the first time.
It is not an exaggeration to say that whoever can win the championship in this game will have a certain advantage in the fierce competition.
Wang Hao and Hao Shuai both knew the importance of this game, so the two played until the tiebreaker, and in the end Hao Shuai still lost to Wang Hao with a big score of 3-4, and the reason why he lost was that according to his post-game summary, he lost in the key game and the handling of the key ball.
"At that time, I thought that I would definitely be able to win that game, but at the critical moment, my hand became soft, and the few soft balls, I was so slippery, Wang Hao won. ”
In competitive sports, the gap between first and second place is too great, and in the words of the late NBA Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant, "Second place is the biggest loser." ”
For the young players of the national table tennis who are on the rise, the champion of a game may be able to lift the breath that he has been holding back.
For example, after Wang Hao won the men's singles championship in the 2003 finals, his status in the national table tennis was obviously different, and finally participated in the Athens Olympics.
Although he lost a crucial game in our eyes today, Hao Shuai at that time did not expect this game to be so important, although he also knew that he was in a backward position in the competition with Wang Hao.
When he first entered the national team, Hao Shuai liked to follow Liu Guoliang and Ma Lin, because in Hao Shuai's view, following the main players and chatting with them more often, a question they said casually was all experience for him, and he could increase the ball.
As mentioned earlier, Wang Liqin and Yan Sen partnered to win the men's doubles championship at the Sydney Olympics, and after that, the two also won the men's doubles championship at the 2001 and 2003 World Table Tennis Championships.
If nothing else, at the 2004 Athens Olympics, Wang Liqin and Yan Sen are still the biggest favorites to win the men's doubles title, but who knows that Yan Sen suffered a car accident at the end of 2003.
So, in the end, Ma Lin partnered with Chen Xi to win the men's doubles championship in the Athens Olympics, and after that, Yan Sen also partnered with Wang Liqin to play a few matches, but the effect was not very good.
So, in 2004, the national team coaching staff began to look for a new partner for Wang Liqin, and this year's Korea Open Hao Shuai began to partner with Wang Liqin.
Before setting out on the expedition, Hao Shuai jokingly said to Yan Sen: "Brother Sen, you should give up your position." ”
At that time, Yan Sen and Hao Shuai played in the same club, so of course Yan Sen would not bother with Hao Shuai, but it is not difficult to see his "ambition" from Hao Shuai's words.
Wang Liqin has been partnering with Yan Sen before, and he is used to cooperating with Yan Sen, while Hao Shuai is the same left-handed as Yan Sen, but Yan Sen plays more fiercely than Hao Shuai, and the ball handling is more reasonable, so the two have just started to partner, Wang Liqin often says that if this ball is Yan Sen, he will definitely play how to play.
Hao Shuai was a little unconvinced at first, but as he cooperated for a long time, he also felt that he was indeed inferior to Yan Sen, although the two partners had not achieved too good results.
But after every competition, Wang Liqin will give Hao Shuai an analysis, and Hao Shuai also cherishes such a learning opportunity.
Four
In the 2005 Shanghai World Table Tennis Championships, Hao Shuai met Metz in the men's singles quarterfinals, and Hao Shuai quickly took a 3-0 lead after the start of the game, leading 10-7 in the fourth game, holding the match point, but who knew that the next ball Hao Shuai grabbed a half-high mistake to give Metz a chance, Metz not only won the fourth game, but also finally defeated Hao Shuai with a big score of 4-3.
This game is no less important to Hao Shuai than the 2003 year-end finals, and the most important thing is that he was reversed in the lead, so after that, Hao Shuai laid a psychological label in the hearts of the coaching staff.
It can even be said that after this game, although Hao Shuai is still a member of the national team, it is almost impossible for him to go further.
In 2007, many fans got to know Hao Shuai, not that he had achieved any good results, but that a video about him circulated on the Internet.
In addition to Hao Shuai, the other protagonist in this video is Liu Guoliang, which is not the kind of video that everyone imagines.
Rather, in a private dinner of national table tennis, everyone was talking and laughing, only Hao Shuai was on the phone, so Chen Xi said a few words, Hao Shuai and Chen Xi had a verbal conflict, and when he saw this situation, Liu Guoliang, the then head coach of Chinese men's table tennis, walked up to Hao Shuai and snatched his mobile phone and gave him a slap.
After this video was circulated, it caused a lot of heated discussions on the Internet, and Huang Biao, the Chinese table tennis team leader at the time, explained that Liu Guoliang did have a slap Hao Shuai, but the two were just joking.
Hao Shuai has not stood up to explain this matter, but competitive sports, especially a team with a strict hierarchy like national table tennis, even if there is such a thing, the team members have no right to speak, unless he has no future.
After that, in 2010, the 27-year-old Hao Shuai was selected for the team World Cup and won his only world championship title with the team.
Hao Shuai, the world champion, can be said to be mixed, after all, the national table tennis team was full of talents at that time, not to mention Ma Lin, Wang Liqin, Wang Hao, Zhang Jike, Ma Long, Xu Xin, even Chen Xi is stronger than Hao Shuai, so this is the coaching staff to see that he is in his career, let him mix a world championship title, and his treatment can be improved a lot after retirement, and this kind of thing is not uncommon in national table tennis.
A few years later, Hao Shuai faded out of the national team, but he did not choose to retire, first represented Tianjin men's table tennis in the Table Tennis Super League, and then Tianjin men's table tennis was forced to transfer for some other reasons, and Hao Shuai joined the Japanese T-League.
Today, Hao Shuai is 41 years old, but he is still active in Japan's T-League.
If Hao Shuai can seize the opportunity of the 2003 year-end finals and the 2005 World Table Tennis Championships, maybe he doesn't have to fight so hard to get on the field now.
But the circumstances of life are like this, of course, on the other hand, for Hao Shuai, who loves table tennis, it is not a kind of happiness to be able to stand on the court and play at the age of 41.
It can only be said that Seon lost his horse, and he didn't know if it was a blessing.
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